Charles Aidman
Charles Aidman (January 21, 1925 – November 7, 1993) was an American stage, film, and television actor.
Early life
Aidman was born in Frankfort in Clinton County, Indiana. After graduating from Frankfort High School he served in the United States Navy from 1946-1948attending officer's training at DePauw University. He attended Indiana University in Indianapolis.
Career
Among his many television credits, Aidman guest starred on NBC's The Virginian (in the episode "The Devil's Children"), and twice on the NBC western series, The Californians. He also appeared twice on David Janssen's Richard Diamond, Private Detective. He portrayed a bounty hunter on the ABC's western series, Black Saddle. He was cast in CBS's fantasy drama, Twilight Zone in the episodes "And When the Sky Was Opened" and "Little Girl Lost". About this time, he guest starred on five other western series: the ABC/Warner Brothers series, Colt .45; ABC's The Rebel, starring Nick Adams; NBC's Riverboat, as Frank Paxton in the episode "The Fight at New Canal", with Darren McGavin as Captain Grey Holden, and The Americans, the story of family conflicts in the American Civil War starring Darryl Hickman and the successor series to Riverboat; CBS's Trackdown, as Len Starbuck in "The Samaritan", and CBS's Johnny Ringo, as Jeffrey Blake in "The Stranger".